{"product_id":"the-letters-of-chan-master-dahui-pujue-9780190664169","title":"The Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeffrey Broughton | Elise Yoko Watanabe\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Buddhism - Zen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Letters of Chan Master Dahui Pujue\u003c\/em\u003e offers a complete annotated translation, the first into English, of a Chan Buddhist classic, the collected letters of the Southern Song Linji Chan teacher Dahui Zonggao (1089-1163). Addressed to forty scholar-officials, members of the elite class in Chinese society, and to two Chan masters, these letters are dharma talks on how to engage in Buddhist cultivation. Each of the letters to laymen is fascinating as a document directed to a specific scholar-official with his distinctive niche, high or low, in the Song-dynasty social-political landscape, and his idiosyncratic stage of development on the Buddhist path. Dahui is engaging, incisive, and often quite humorous in presenting his teaching of \"constantly lifting to awareness the phrase (\u003cem\u003ehuatou\u003c\/em\u003e),\" his favored phrases being \u003cem\u003eNo\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003ewu\u003c\/em\u003e) and \u003cem\u003edried turd\u003c\/em\u003e. Throughout one's busy twenty-four hours, the practitioner is not to perform any mental operation whatsoever on this phrase, and to \"take awakening\u003cbr\u003eas the standard.\"\u003cbr\u003eThis epistolary compilation has long constituted a self-contained course of study for Chan practitioners. For centuries, \u003cem\u003eLetters of Dahui\u003c\/em\u003e has been revered throughout East Asia. It has exerted a formative influence on Linji Chan practice in China, molded S\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890057887895,"sku":"9780190664169","price":13746.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780190664169.webp?v=1781178681","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-letters-of-chan-master-dahui-pujue-9780190664169","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}